Word: frees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last commercial-free frontier is about to be breached. When the first British-Soviet space mission blasts into orbit in 1991, the event will have all the advertising hoopla of the Super Bowl. Glavkosmos, the Soviet space agency, has hired Britain's Saatchi & Saatchi agency to package corporate sponsorships, similar to those sold for the Olympic Games. The marketing ploy could raise an estimated $26 million to help pay for the project. During the mission, two Soviet cosmonauts and the first ever British astronaut will spend a week aboard the Mir space station. Saatchi has already designed the joint project...
Hazelwood is a free man today, at least until his trial, now scheduled to begin in October. He spends much of his time lobster fishing in Huntington Bay with a friend in order to earn money. The work is filthy, but it helps keep Hazelwood's mind off his new role as America's Environmental Enemy No. 1. It will probably be 1990 before Exxon and the National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations...
...delicate challenge was to encourage the faltering nations to embrace democratic reforms and move toward a free-market economy mostly on their own, without provoking another era of repression from nervous party bosses. Bush offered only $115 million to Poland, a pittance when measured against Poland's $39 billion international debt, and $25 million to Hungary. But part of the President's traveling plan was not to overpromise and energize the dissidents, who might then make more demands...
...trial by fire, the personal stakes are high for the feisty former nine-term New York Congressman who vainly sought the Republican presidential nomination last year. The self-styled "progressive conservative" has long turned the neat trick of attracting right-wing support with his antitax, free- enterprise economic policies while urging his party to reach out to blacks by conceiving compassionate programs. He had hoped to turn HUD into a shining example of how his party could put capitalist tools to work easing the problems of the poor, spurring new development in the inner cities and providing housing...
...cycle of novels is available in English. But an enormous preview of what lies in store is being published this week as August 1914 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 854 pages; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). This novel first appeared in English in 1972; after his banishment from the U.S.S.R., Solzhenitsyn was free to explore new troves of archival material, particularly at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has now expanded the text by some 300 pages. Much of the additional material concerns the evil (in Solzhenitsyn's view) activities of Lenin during Russia's hasty entrance into World War I, and the heroic...